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New Your Library sidebar

Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar is rolling out to all desktop users now, so you will be seeing it soon if you haven't already. The new Your Library sidebar improves nav...

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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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FAQ: Spotify for Windows 10 app

Hey folks, we've outlined some of the common questions you might have about the Windows 10 app now available. Please post in this board if you have any other questions. Q: Why can’t I see Spotify in the Windows 10 store? A: Spotify for Windows store ...

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Spotify won't play certain songs

PlanSpotify premiumCountry FinlandDeviceCustom built PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue My spotify won't play certain songs. I have internet connection working properly and I've tried disabling firewall and proxy. Songs that won't play...

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  • Plan Spotify premium Country  Finland Device Custom built PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  My spotify won't play certain songs. I have internet con...
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Solved!! Can't play on PC, but iphone is normal

PlanFreeCountry JapanDeviceiPhone 7Operating SystemiOS 12 / Windows 10 My Question or Issue Now, so many song can play on my phone, but it can't play on windows.

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  • Plan Free Country  Japan Device iPhone 7 Operating System iOS 12 / Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Now, so many song can play on my phone, but it can't play on window...
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Convertine local files to Spotify

Credit goes todvs5552 This is not my idea, I'm just expanding on it. This would be great. I have many local files on my externeal hdd, I would love the ability to have Spotify, scan through them all and add the Spoitfy versions. Some way to convert a...

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  • Credit goes to dvs5552   This is not my idea, I'm just expanding on it.    This would be great. I have many local files on my externeal hdd, I would love the ability to have Spot...
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Spotify only shows Albums tab by Saved Albums Only

I have Spotify Premium, running on Windows 7. I always used the albums tab to listen to my saved music, however it has been completely ruined as of lately. I believe Spotify has just recently made album saving and song saving two different things, wh...

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  • I have Spotify Premium, running on Windows 7. I always used the albums tab to listen to my saved music, however it has been completely ruined as of lately. I believe Spotify has just recently made al...
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Solved!! Can't play at all a song on desktop app or web browser

PlanFree/PremiumCountry FranceDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 I've recently encountered the problem that I can't play at all songs on the deskop app or the web player, it shows me a blank cover when I try to play a song. I still can play the songs...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country  France Device PC Operating System Windows 10  I've recently encountered the problem that I can't play at all songs on the deskop app or the web player, it...
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Can't create radio stations on win10

PlanPremium CountryCanada Operating SystemWindows 10 When I goto an artist and select go to Artist Radio it just goes to a playlist

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  • Plan Premium   Country Canada   Operating System Windows 10     When I goto an artist and select go to Artist Radio it just goes to a playlist  
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"Some Songs Won't Play" - The 3+yr Issue?

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemW10 My Question or Issue Here's what's hopefully a familiar-looking issue with maybe a little more detail than you usually get:On the desktop app, after a while of use, which is what I guess to be ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System W10   My Question or Issue  Here's what's hopefully a familiar-looking issue with maybe a little more detail than you...
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Column sort in search gone?

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen searching for a song, artist, etc, the search results used to be sortable by column. For example, if I search for a song, many non-exact results show up, but it used to...

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  •   Plan Premium Country USA  Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When searching for a song, artist, etc, the search results used to be sortable by co...
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Can't play any songs by Fool's Garden

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceAsus Laptop and Galaxy S6Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Since a while back I haven't been able to play any song made by the artist Fool's Garden.

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Asus Laptop and Galaxy S6 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Since a while back I haven't been able to play any song made by th...
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Queue does not load full playlist

I have a playlist of about 250 songs. Queue does not load full playlist when I play a song in the playlist it just loads about 80 to 90 songs then stops playing when reaching the last song in the queue instead of adding the rest of the songs from the...

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  • I have a playlist of about 250 songs. Queue does not load full playlist when I play a song in the playlist it just loads about 80 to 90 songs then stops playing when reaching the last song in the que...
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Windows 10 app taking 10+ minutes to load and be usable.

PlanPremiumCountry united kingdomDevicewindows 10 Operating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issue Why does this app performance degrade over time?Why do I have to wait for more than 10 minutes for spotify desktop to become usuable. Cant search, cant ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  united kingdom Device windows 10  Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue   Why does this app performance degrade over time? W...
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Any chance the interface gets updated?

PlanPremiumCountry MYOperating SystemWindows 8.1spotify version: 1.0.99.250.g936eab8d My Question or IssueThe issues with songs not playing and/empty Discover Weekly aside, the last update's download icon seems really messy!I have a lot of downloaded...

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  • Plan Premium Country  MY Operating System Windows 8.1 spotify version: 1.0.99.250.g936eab8d   My Question or Issue The issues with songs not playing and/empty Discover Weekly ...
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Follower Count on Playlists Not Displaying

PlanPremiaweiumCountry U.S.DeviceHuawei Matebook DOperating SystemWindows 10 It appears that I can no longer see the number of followers on both other peoples playlists and my own. Is this a bug or is it an intended feature? And if it's an intended f...

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  • Plan Premiaweium Country  U.S. Device Huawei Matebook D Operating System Windows 10  It appears that I can no longer see the number of followers on both other peoples playlists and ...
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Saved songs not syncing

PlanPremiumCountry USDevice(iPhone, PC)Operating System(iOS 10, Windows 10) My Question or Issue I recently got Premium and I have Spotify installed on my phone and my computer. I have saved songs to my library on my phone and they don't show up in t...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  US Device (iPhone, PC) Operating System (iOS 10, Windows 10)   My Question or Issue  I recently got Premium and I have Spotify installed on my p...
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Solved!! Certain songs won´t play

Operating SystemWindows 10Spotify Version1.0.99.250 My Question or IssueWell, since some days i have the problem that im not able to play some songs of random artist.After reinstalling Spotify it used to work but some days later it´s starting to do i...

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  •  Operating System Windows 10 Spotify Version 1.0.99.250   My Question or Issue Well, since some days i have the problem that im not able to play some songs of random artist. Aft...
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Local Files Sync - Wired Computer with a Wireless Phone

So, an ongoing issue that I have with syncing my local files is it's impossible to do it when my computer is connected via ethernet and my phone is connected via wireless. I tried to do a USB connection with a hotspot on my phone, and that didn't wor...

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  • So, an ongoing issue that I have with syncing my local files is it's impossible to do it when my computer is connected via ethernet and my phone is connected via wireless. I tried to do a USB connect...
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Followers cannot rearrange collaborative playlist

Hi! I have created a collaborative playlist, but followers of that list report that they are unable to rearrange the playlist (reorder songs). They can add and remove songs, but not, as I said, rearrange the songs. Is this is limitation of collaborat...

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  •   Hi!   I have created a collaborative playlist, but followers of that list report that they are unable to rearrange the playlist (reorder songs). They can add and remove songs, but not,...
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Song wrongly marked as local file so I can't play or add the online version to a playlist

So when I first installed Spotify I thought it would be helpful to add my own collection of music to it as well, thinking to get the best of both worlds.Soon I found out that when I have a local file on my computer, that song will play from there, bu...

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  • So when I first installed Spotify I thought it would be helpful to add my own collection of music to it as well, thinking to get the best of both worlds. Soon I found out that when I have a local ...
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Playlists not syncing between devices

My playlists between my phone and windows 10 PC do not seem to sync. I have done some research and it seems as though this has been an issue for some users for quite some time how. How the heck has this not been fixed yet? Does anyone have a solution...

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  • My playlists between my phone and windows 10 PC do not seem to sync. I have done some research and it seems as though this has been an issue for some users for quite some time how. How the heck has t...
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